Category: Websites and Blogging

This category will contain any blogging-related posts, that includes platforms such as WordPress and Blogger.

  • Tips for Attracting More Readers to Your Blog

    Tips for Attracting More Readers to Your Blog

    You have identified the right audience, come up with great topics and carefully crafted your content. Then you hit the ‘publish’ button, and the worst happens. Nobody reads your articles. No tweets, no comments, no sharing on Facebook. This is enough to make you depressed and lower your motivation for writing any further.

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  • Traffic Stats: May 2011

    Traffic Stats: May 2011

    In terms of traffic, I had a goal going into the month of May: reach 100,000 pageviews. I had come close in April, with just over 94,000 pageviews, so I figured that the next logical goal was to hit 100K.

    I watched my traffic move up and down through the month, and at times it didn’t seem like I would reach my goal in May. When I looked at the final traffic numbers, I had actually achieve my traffic goal in pageviews. The traffic stats for May 2011 are below.

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  • Free Web Analysis Tools For A Web Design Firm

    Free Web Analysis Tools For A Web Design Firm

    Making a website effective is the main objective of any web designer. Website analysis plays an important role in determining whether a website is effective or ineffective. Lots of tools are available to perform the function of website analysis. Web analysis tools don’t require any account to be used by a web design firm.

    Here are some selected best tools to analyze a website, some come with analysis of specific aspect of a website while others work for the entire website.

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  • Great Tips for Blog Content Success

    Great Tips for Blog Content Success

    Posting high quality content through blogging helps companies reap many marketing benefits including increasing search visibility, streamlining customer service and boosting credibility. Blogs use content management systems (CMS) for publishing information and delivering results.

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  • Branding your Blog for Better Online Success

    Branding your Blog for Better Online Success

    The whole world is becoming a global village with the advent of technology and internet. With so much of information available on various websites and blogs, readers have become smart to churn out the best ones to acquire knowledge.

    Given this situation many blogs are finding it hard to maintain reader’s interest and generate good traffic. If you are one among them, it is not a surprise!

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  • How to Promote a Brand Effectively

    How to Promote a Brand Effectively

    If you’ve got your brand set up, are offering a great service and have plenty of pleased customers but are wondering why your client base hasn’t grown, perhaps it’s because you need to do some effective brand promotion.

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  • W3 Total Cache Prevented FeedBurner Feed from Updating

    W3 Total Cache Prevented FeedBurner Feed from Updating

    A few weeks back I noticed that the RSS FeedBurner feed wasn’t updating for Technically Easy. Each time a post was published, the WordPress RSS feed would be updated, but the FeedBurner feed wasn’t updated to show the new post.

    I went through the troubleshooting page on the FeedBurner website, but the steps outlined didn’t correct the problem. I then started to look at the caching plugin that I was using: W3 Total Cache. The plugin cached the RSS feed on my blog, but for some reason it started to cause problems with FeedBurner.

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  • Traffic Stats: April 2011

    Traffic Stats: April 2011

    The month of April was my best month for traffic on Technically Easy. I have been getting more involved with commenting on other blogs, and being more active on social networks. The results of my efforts are slowly paying off. In the process, I have also learned about many new great blogs that I have been visiting on a regular basis, so I see my blog commenting/social media blitz as a win-win situation.

    Also, starting in January, I have also been publishing five times a week, instead of the usual once or twice. The result is that with more content, I am seeing more traffic from search engines for keywords that are related to my new posts.
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